Network Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 21406
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are becoming a very significant part of the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT is emerging as an area of technical, social, and economic significance. It is found in consumer products, durable goods, cars and trucks, industrial and utility components, sensors, and other everyday objects. Its power is in its connectivity with powerful data analytic capabilities that promise to transform the way we work, live, and play. The IoT is projected to have a powerful impact on the Internet and the global economy, with as many as 100 billion connected IoT devices, and trillions of dollars of economic impact by 2025.
The technology of wireless sensor networks is integral to the IoT. It is a collection of sensing nodes with limited processing power, limited energy reserve, and limited radio communication capabilities. These are widely implemented in many areas of applications, such as industry, environment, healthcare, etc. In recent years, they have started to become smaller, less expensive, and more intelligent. They can sense, measure, and gather information from their environment and transmit the sensed data to the user based on local decision processes. The data are collected via routing protocols to a central location.
It is these protocols that are crucial to the survival and longevity of the network. Traditional hierarchical protocols in layers 1 to 4 are not suitable, giving rise to the need for new protocols across the layers that minimize energy consumption, while allowing for energy harvesting and survivability. Traditional criteria such as connectivity assurance and data integrity are now of lesser importance. New modeling and analysis techniques such as the study of complexity are required. New carrier media such as acoustics must be investigated. New information theory must be developed. In short, we must start to think of biological metaphors, and biomimetic techniques that may be more appropriate to what we may think of as “social” networks.
In this Special Edition, we are particularly interested in new ways of thinking about cooperative networks and the nature of the information that flows through them.
Prof. Robin Braun
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Wireless
- Protocols
- Ad hoc
- Cooperative
- Sensors
- Networks
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